Matthew Mederer

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Coat of arms Mederer von Wuthwehr

Matthäus Mederer , from 1789 Mederer Edler von Wuthwehr , (born September 6, 1739 in Lichtenthal near Vienna, † May 26, 1805 in Vienna ) was a professor of surgery .

origin

He comes from a farming family from Upper Palatinate. His parents were the confectioner Conrad Johann Mederer (1685-1760) and his wife Rosalie Albers († 1744), a daughter of Maximilian Albers from Etzdorf (Lower Austria).

Life and family

Mederer initially trained as a surgeon with his brother Elias in Graz. At the age of 18 he was acquitted as an assistant and served as a regimental surgeon in several regiments. In 1762 he passed his master's degree in surgery in Vienna, in 1773 he gave up military service, obtained his license to practice medicine and in the same year was appointed professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Freiburg by Empress Maria Theresia. Maria Franziska Strobel (1752–1803), daughter of the Freiburg medical professor Philipp Joseph Strobel (1705–1769), became his wife. One of their children together was the Austrian general field sergeant Conrad von Mederer (1781-1840).

science

Already his inaugural lecture "On the necessity to reunite the two medicines, the surgical and the clinical", which was written down by students and professors, as well as a book that was only printed in 1782 with the title Two speeches of necessity, the surgical and the clinical again to unite show its importance for the whole medicine. The struggle for equality between surgery and medicine made slow progress, but at least it achieved that surgeons had to be enrolled at a university for two years with a subsequent examination since 1788. Another work from 1782 "Syntagma de rabie canina" etc., Freiburg, on rabies in dogs was used by Emperor Joseph II as an opportunity to elevate him to the hereditary nobility in 1789 - Edler to anger defense.

Since 1779 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1780 he was accepted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . He was a member of the Masonic lodge " Zur noble Aussicht " in Freiburg. In 1785 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

In 1796 he moved to Vienna as chief field doctor and in 1802 was appointed court advisor and director of the Veterinary Institute. He died three years later.

plant

  • Two speeches on the need to reunite the surgical and the clinic . ( books.google.de )
  • Treatise on the necessity of amputation ( digitized version )
  • Matthäus Mederer von Wuthwehr: Hebarzney: History and Art in Ground Plans. Freiburg im Breisgau (Aloys Wagner) 1791 ( digitized version ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philipp Joseph Strobl in the German biography
  2. ↑ Ernst Kern : Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000, ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , p. 261.
  3. ^ Member entry by Matthaeus Mederer at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 15, 2015.
  4. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, Volume 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 163.
personal data
SURNAME Mederer, Matthew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mederer von Wuthwehr, Matthäus; Mederer Edler von Wuthwehr, Matthäus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH Lichtenthal near Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1805
Place of death Vienna